New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . mi)eror Charlemagne. In 1853 he emigrated toNew York, where he has since lived ancl carried on business as a successful merchant, at first alone, but since 1865 incopartnership with Alfred Roelker. The business of thefirm consists of importing and exporting on commission. But it is as an organizer of successful institutions, finan-cial and otherwise, that Mr. Windmiiller is more jjopularlyknown. He has assisted in founding the Title Guaran-tee and Trust Company, the (ierman-American InsuranceCompany, the Hide and Leather Nat
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . mi)eror Charlemagne. In 1853 he emigrated toNew York, where he has since lived ancl carried on business as a successful merchant, at first alone, but since 1865 incopartnership with Alfred Roelker. The business of thefirm consists of importing and exporting on commission. But it is as an organizer of successful institutions, finan-cial and otherwise, that Mr. Windmiiller is more jjopularlyknown. He has assisted in founding the Title Guaran-tee and Trust Company, the (ierman-American InsuranceCompany, the Hide and Leather National Bank and theBond and Mortgage Guarantee Company. He is directorin some of those comi)anies. He is one of the founders ofthe Reform Club, of which he was elected Treasurer inJanuary, 1887, and has been instrumental in securing forthe club the comfortable home which it now occui)ies, there-by contributing largely to its success and permanency. is one of those reformers who are not contentmerely with the name; his acti\e efforts, es))erialb in the. I.( )11S WINDMiJLLER. cause of sound currency and tariff reform, have been madeknown to the public from time to time through the life is an active one, for apart from his business proper heis always doing something which he thinks of benefit to thecommunity or the country at large. He is Chairman of theCommittee of the Chamber of Commerce on Internal Tradeand Improvements, a life member of the New York Histor-ical Society, treasurer of a fund for the erection of a monu-ment to the great German [)oet Goethe, and of the (GermanHistorical Society. Mr. Windmiiller was also Chairman of the Committeeon Arrangements of the German portion of the Centennialcelebration of George Washington, and has contributedsome articles of value on the subject to a work published byClarence H- Bowen, in which he describes the memorableevent- In i888 he arranged a collection of paintings forthe German Hospital Fair, by which over
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